Deathcrush · Mayhem

121 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26, 28-32 and 34, and 13 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 152 BPM
DEATHCRUSH · BARS 28-29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 27, 33 and 12 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 14 sections: 74 keep time, 18 are fills, 3 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-65.

PART D
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART I
OUTRO
8 groovesJIDS14S11+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deathcrush?

152 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Deathcrush hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Deathcrush?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 27, 33 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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